A 17-year-old legally blind girl’s written plea for help halted the foreclosure auction of her family home in Manchester.

Lindsey Vachon suffers from a series of genetic conditions so rare that she is only one of five people in the world who has them. With just hours left before their house could be sold, Lindsey and her mother, Lynn Vachon, were in court trying to avert disaster.

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A lawyer filed a motion Tuesday afternoon to stop the process less than 18 hours before the house was supposed to go up for sale.

“The foreclosure and the auction just became too big,” Lynn Vachon said. “Too big for me to help or understand or take care of, and then my hero stepped in.”

Lindsey was inspired to act when she heard the story of “Batkid,” the young California boy the Make-A-Wish Foundation made a superhero for a day.

“And when I heard this on TV, I was like, 'Well, hey, what if I became my mom’s hero, stepped in and tried to help her out,?'” Lindsey said. “I wouldn’t need any superpowers, I would just use my voice. 'Use the power of your voice,' that's what I always tell myself."

Lindsey wrote a letter, which ended up with Stellionata Consulting, which provides foreclosure defense litigation support. The company connected the Vachons with attorney Stephen Martin, who said the facts showed the Vachons should not have to leave their home.

“That is the ultimate goal in this case, to stop the foreclosure altogether,” Martin said.

With a judge granting a 60-day reprieve Tuesday evening, the Vachons said they are breathing a sigh of relief.

“It’s scary because people don’t know, the banks don’t know us,” Lynn Vachon said. “It’s just a house to them. To me, we’re a special family.”

“I’m just very, very happy that I was able to do what I could for my mom,” Lindsey said. “I was able to become her hero, and that’s all I wanted.”

Although the judge agreed to halt the foreclosure process for 60 days, the Vachons and their lawyer still have to get a copy of the order in the morning and use it to stop the auctioneers who might show up and try to sell their house.